few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> said:
> There are more subtle issues here as well.  Sure some individual binaries
> are useful if you arent the administrator. How many binaries in /*/sbin/ are
> currently still setuid root?  Do we need to continue to take some care with
> those binaries by giving local administrators a way to easily wall off those
> binaries in a directory that users can't get to by setting strict directory
> access permissions?

bin vs. sbin is not at all a security measure, since users can already
run things in sbin just by using the full path (or adding the sbin dirs
to their PATH).

My F8 system has 12 setuid and/or setgid binaries between /sbin and
/usr/sbin.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.